This is the Noboribetsu Onsen (Hot Spring) Festival and you’ve never seen anything like this before! Men in thongs throwing water at -10C / 14F temperatures at night. It’s a surreal scene and one I got to participate in.
Welcome to the new John Daub * ONLY in JAPAN! The channel was actually started in September 2011 a few months after the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Following that disaster, I volunteered up in Tohoku to help people recover when when I returned to […]
On June 26th, the John Daub * ONLY in JAPAN channel becomes the newest channel in the ONLY in JAPAN series. It is a channel I created in 2011 after the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and it has now become my home for the a new generation of video content about stories in Japan.
This is a location I’ve come to in Shizuoka for watching the Shinkansen fly by in front of Mt Fuji at high speed. It’s the classic “Welcome to Japan” shot for many movie location shoots here from Hollywood to TV. You can catch them all: Nozomi, Hikari, Kodama — the Tokaido Shinkansen
Ginzan Onsen is one of the most famous onsen hot spring towns in Japan, made famous by a CNN report to the world a decade ago. Why? An old village covered in snow winding around a steamy stream with little bridges crossing it. It’s that beautiful!
We’ll ride the whole 58 min loop of Tokyo on the historic Yamanote Line on the new E235 series trains – clockwise from Tokyo Station ▶︎ Shinagawa ▶︎ Shibuya ▶︎ Shinjuku ▶︎ Ikebukuro ▶︎ Ueno ▶︎ Akihabara ▶︎ Tokyo
This is it!! The biggest street food festival maybe in all of Japan! The Tori no Ichi festival held by Otori Shine north of Asakusa is incredible! It’s the experience you’re looking for when you come to Japan. And it will fill you up!!
Osaka has the longest “shoutengai” shopping street in Japan and there’s no one better than Kevin Riley to show us around!
It is a stroll through history as well. Tenjinbashisuji is the name of the covered street and it historically led to the shrine, shops building further around it for centuries.
Welcome to Fukuoka’s main train station, Hakata Station in the city center. Let’s look at the Station front (Ekimae), some of the shops and getting around. The stream is planned to last 40 minutes.
What is nabe (鍋)? It’s a pot to cook things in and it also means SOUP or STEW or as we say in Japanese — nabe. This festival is highlighting nabe from many areas of Japan this weekend. Let’s try some!
One of Japan’s biggest street food festivals is in Tokyo! There seems to be a thousand stands serving takoyaki, okonomiyaki, yakitori, wagyu on sticks, karage Japanese chicken … it’s incredible!
Welcome to Akihabara – From JR Akihabara Station to the maid cafe alley & Super Potato retro game store to Gachapon Kaikan, we’ll scramble the neighborhood and you’ll be ready to navigate the area like a pro when you visit!